Thiruvananthapuram: The two nurses of Kerala, Vineetha K P and Remya Rajappan, who died while trying to save patients from fire that broke out at AMRI Hospital in Kolkata, have been conferred Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Pathak award for the year 2012. On Monday, the President approved the conferment of the awards. Besides the two Malayalis, one more woman, Sangeeta Agarwal of Uttarakhand, has won the award posthumously. Apart from Vineetha and Remya, six other Malayalis are in the list of awardees - Mohammed Nishadh V P (Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak) , Sureshkumar C S (Posthumous), Jishnu V Nair, Aji Cherippanattu Kochu, Anshif C K, Sahsad K (Jeevan Raksha Padak). Vineetha and Remya had saved as many as nine patients before they died in the freak fire that killed over 90 persons. Their sacrifice had come in for praise from the entire nation as the patients alleged that only a few hospital staff, including Vineetha and Remya tried to help them, while the rest of them fled for their lives. The two nurses had also been conferred with the first ever posthumous National Florence Nightingale Nurses awards. Remya Rajappan and Vineetha K P